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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Tim O'Brien"”.

  1. Metafiction in the work of Tim O'Brien

    Kimmet, Michael Patrick

    This thesis explores Tim O'Brien's ideas on the definition of fiction, memory, imagination, the role they play in the creative process, and the functions that fiction has in the world at large. This will be explored through close examination of O'Brien's self-referential narrative technique. This …

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  2. The Soldier's Strife: An Introspective View Through the Work of Tim O'Brien

    Solomon, Mandy

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  3. Operation Iraqi Freedom Two: March 2004 to March 2005

    Templer, VictorTexas State University2015

    … I make no apologies for my bluntness, for as Tim O'Brien says in The Things They Carried, in war there is “no redemption.”

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  4. Twine Ball: Stories

    Karas, Felicia Megan2099

    … is influenced by the work of Stuart Dybek, Tim O'Brien, Elizabeth Strout, Melissa Bank, and Garrison Keillor in terms of structure, character, image, and setting.'</p>

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  5. Reading Through Displacement: Functionality of the Underlying Theme in Tim O'Brien's Fiction

    McClure, Benjamin TaylorVirginia Tech2011

    Tim O'Brien, a contemporary author writing mostly about his combat experience in Vietnam, has written eight books to date. All involve Vietnam in some way—overtly, for the most part. He and his stories are well known stylistically for several traits including the blurred distinctions between what …

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  6. Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

    Martin, Travis L.Eastern Kentucky University

    … on established, twentieth-century authors like Tim O'Brien, Paul Fussell, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. Shoshana Johnson's I'm Still Standing explains how the self created during war cannot always be reconciled with the normal, peacetime selves which merge to create the summation of …

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  7. A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War

    Middleton, Alexis Turley2008

    … II. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried are highly fictionalized texts that accurately portray particular realities of Vietnam. These texts are capable of presenting truth about Vietnam through their use of specific metafictional techniques, which …

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